Patient was educated on precautions to be exercised while taking Trazodone as follows:
- Closely monitor for any symptoms of worsening mood, anxiety, impulsive behavior, panic attacks, trouble sleeping, aggression, and suicidal thoughts with trazodone. Report such findings immediately to your physician, for any appropriate measures to be considered.
- As the balance between the chemicals in the brain has to be finely regulated to help relieve the depressive symptoms and experience feelings of well-being, the dose of trazodone also needs to be finely regulated, in order to accomplish this goal. Your physician could change the dose of trazodone, based on the response you show. So, maintain compliance with follow-up physician appointments and be accommodative to the plan of frequent dose changes, until you show an optimum response.
- Notify your doctor of any unresolving and worsening depressive symptoms or continuing unpleasant side-effects, so that, your dosage on the medication could be revised.
- If a dose is missed, it should be taken at the earliest notice of noncompliance. If it is time for the next dose, the missed dose can be skipped. Compensating for the missed dose by taking an extra dose can pose serious risk for toxicity and side-effects.
